Tag Archives: desensitization

This month’s New York Magazine included several articles under the banner “Drowning in Porn”, examining, in part, the impact the web-porn “tsunami” is having on the pornography industry, adults and children. As the series explains, the Internet served as “a distribution chute liberating [pornography] from the trench-coat ghetto of brown paper wrappers and seedy adult …

I recently came across Cosmopolitan’s 2010 Sex Survey, which reported that 36% of women use pornography as a “sex enhancer”. In another Cosmo article, the magazine essentially begs its readers to explore the many “benefits” of pornography. One standout paragraph said: “While one must be aware of the dangers of porn addiction, [pornography] can be …

When I was in high school, I didn’t do drugs, but some of my peers certainly did. They took their cues from older siblings and friends who passed along their “insights” about rolling a joint and making Jello shots. Of course, some kids drank a lot, and some kids smoked a lot, but I only …

Last fall, I was speaking in the mountains of Virginia to a group of women about our work at Enough Is Enough to protect children and families from Internet dangers. One of the issues we focused on was kids’ and adults’ free and easy access to Internet pornography. Many of the women present wanted advice …

Researchers had to get creative when confronted with sexually inactive panda bears who refused to mate. So they tried a new drug. They showed the lazy male pandas a porn video of other pandas having sex. And so far, the tactics have proven to boost male panda’s sex drive. The male pandas have started to …

An article by J.R. Stoner Jr. highlights how “ordinary television, respectable magazines, and popular songs regularly include provocative images, situations and lyrics that a generation ago would have been labeled ‘soft porn’. Reports from those who have looked describe what now counts as ‘hard-core’ in terms that would astonish the imagination and shock the conscience …